The Constellations Are My Disciples - Chapter 255
◈ Episode 255: A bit of a personality… (3)
A circular staircase with no end in sight.
And the man who was sitting at the entrance to the circular stairs stood up as if he had been waiting as soon as Kim Joo-hyuk opened the door and entered.
“It’s finally here.”
Kim Joo-hyuk asked a question after seeing the man smiling as if he knew Kim Joo-hyuk would come.
“Do you know who I am?”
“Of course I know.”
The man answered happily, nodded, and then walked in front of Kim Joo-hyuk.
That moment.
“uh?”
Kim Joo-hyuk felt a sense of déjà vu.
No matter how much he thought about it, Kim Joo-hyuk felt like he had seen the man in front of him before, so he tilted his head.
“ah!”
It wasn’t long before Kim Joo-hyuk realized where he had seen the man when he came right in front of him.
“Are you in those memories…?”
Kim Joo-hyuk found a memory when he was fighting an underground person.
That memory was talking to an unknown man.
In that memory, Kim Joo-hyuk was able to gain enlightenment and deal with the underground person thanks to the man whose face was not visible.
And Kim Joo-hyuk was convinced that the man whose face he had seen in those memories, whose face he could not see, was the one in front of him.
Of course, that didn’t mean Kim Joo-hyuk looked at the man’s face and realized that he was the man in his memories.
Because the man’s face was not visible in Kim Joo-hyuk’s memories in the first place.
However, Kim Joo-hyuk remembered other clues besides the man’s face.
The clue was the gorgeous silk clothes that Kim Joo-hyuk saw in his memory.
Because the silk clothes were a little more unique than regular silk clothes, they stuck in Kim Joo-hyuk’s mind a little more clearly, and because of that, Kim Joo-hyuk was able to recognize the man.
and.
“But I still remember it well.”
To Kim Joo-hyuk’s question, the man answered with a grin, then pointed to a distant staircase and spoke.
“Shall we walk and talk first?”
Kim Joo-hyuk responded to the man’s words by quietly nodding his head.
Kim Joo-hyuk, who started climbing the endless stairs with the man, immediately opened up about what he was curious about.
“I think I heard that hardships await you if you go through this door.”
“Are you asking me if this is suffering?”
When Kim Joo-hyuk nodded, the man smiled and nodded.
“First of all, let me be clear: it is true that you have entered the class that an ‘ascetic’ must walk.”
“So does the ordeal begin now?”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question, the man immediately shook his head.
“No, it is true that you have come to the level where an ascetic must walk, but what you are going to experience from now on is not suffering.”
“…It’s not hardship?”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question, the man smiled and answered.
“You’ve already gone through hardships once, right? But there is no need to go through hardships. “After all, you do not have to overcome hardships, but ‘regain’ the memories of going through hardships.”
“I’ll get it back…”
Kim Joo-hyuk muttered without realizing it at the man’s words. Seeing him like that, the man smiled and spoke.
“In short, what can I say about who you are now… You can just think of it as coming here to look back on what you did.”
Kim Joo-hyuk thought about the man’s words, then made a questioning expression and asked.
“for a moment.”
“why?”
“No, I don’t think you said that when you heard the story from King Wudu earlier?”
“What did you say?”
“Wudu Heavenly King clearly said that it would be very dangerous if I didn’t obtain the minimum level of power, so I even talked to this sword and met the minimum standard… I’m not being tested?”
When Kim Joo-hyuk asked as if it was strange, the man spoke.
“If you ask me again, my answer is the same. All you have to do here is to reflect on what you have done on this path of asceticism. There is nothing you have to do.”
After saying that, the man seemed to be thinking about something and added more.
“In addition, the story King Wuducheon said is probably not wrong in a way.”
“?”
“Anyway, if you don’t reach a certain level, you won’t get anything even if you come here. Besides, didn’t King Wudou know what was up here and didn’t tell you?”
“No, I heard that story.”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s answer, the man spoke.
“No wonder he doesn’t know what’s upstairs in the first place. Here, the form and form of suffering is determined depending on who is climbing. “In any case, King Uducheon probably meant that you should prepare as little as possible to avoid dying.”
The man said that and then looked at Kim Joo-hyuk and spoke.
“So, are you done with all the questions you’re curious about?”
“Well, that’s true.”
“Now then, I should introduce myself right away…”
The man spoke and then looked at Kim Joo-hyuk.
“How would you like to know me now?”
I muttered that and thought for a while.
“good.”
He nodded as if he had decided.
“I am ‘Parashurama,’ the teacher of the Asuras, the atoner of the deep, and the one who currently manages this place for a while. And-”
That’s what he said.
“-He’s also one of the nine Avatars you have to deal with.”
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Bhargava, who introduced himself as the teacher of his Asuras, quickly pulled out his sword and gently pressed Kim Joo-hyuk’s arm as he tried to reach for it.
Anyone can see that it is a movement similar to just a tap.
however.
“!”
Kim Joo-hyuk opened his mouth in astonishment at the fact that his right arm was not moving at all.
The man, Ani Parashurama, spoke with a smile.
“You don’t have to be so serious, I’m not your enemy.”
As he said that, he took his hand off Kim Joo-hyuk’s arm and opened his mouth.
“Let’s talk first.”
Kim Joo-hyuk still looked nervous at Parashurama’s words, but he soon sheathed his sword as if he understood.
At the same time, Kim Joo-hyuk began to listen to Parashurama’s story.
and.
“…You are not the Parashurama outside Kalpa right now?”
“This is a bit embarrassing. To be exact, it’s me. “It’s just that there’s something a little disgusting in my incarnation.”
As Parashurama said that, he seemed to think for a moment and then spoke as if it had occurred to him.
“Ah, first of all, you know that this Kalpa is a completely different world from yours, right?”
“I heard that.”
In response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s words, Parashurama muttered, ‘Then it’s easy to explain,’ and then spoke.
“To put it simply, it’s convenient to think that my body was stolen from the real world and only my soul escaped. “Let me explain it a little more easily. You know Buddha, right?”
Kim Joo-hyuk nodded at Parashurama’s words.
“…Buddha too?”
“Yes, Buddha, like me, only his incarnation was taken away. Of course, his soul cannot escape like mine and seems to be sealed in that incarnation.”
Kim Joo-hyuk heard from his guide that Buddha was not Buddha, so he nodded his head in response and spoke.
“Then maybe there are others besides you…?”
“No, the other guys destroyed God solely through their own choices. “Unlike me and Buddha.”
“…Then who is that guy in you and Buddha’s body?”
Parashurama shook his head in response to Kim Joo-hyuk’s question.
“It would be better for you to see it for yourself rather than for me to tell you. “Anyway, explaining ‘that’ doesn’t mean you can understand it.”
Parashurama said that and then looked at Kim Joo-hyuk and spoke.
“Anyway, this was my self-introduction, and I think I roughly understood it.”
“…This is all about self-introduction, so does that mean you have something else to say?”
When Kim Joo-hyuk asked with a slightly shocked expression, Parashurama chuckled.
“Well, actually, I have something to say, but I won’t say it for too long. Besides, you will soon reach where you need to go.”
“…ah.”
Kim Joo-hyuk nodded as the end of the staircase, which had clearly been rising for a long time with no end in sight, was now in sight.
“Listen carefully, if you ever meet me in this life, aim for his left eye.”
“…Left eye?”
“Yes, the weak point of the guy currently occupying my body is his left eye. Additionally, in the case of the current Buddha, it is the eye in the middle. “Even if you don’t know anything else, make sure to remember this.”
Parashurama said so and reached the end of the stairs.
Kim Joo-hyuk reached the huge door again at the end of the stairs.
and.
“I will say hello here. “Actually, there are a lot of things I want to teach you, but I can’t do it in this current state.”
Parashurama said that and immediately took a step away from Kim Joo-hyuk.
“Then I will look forward to the day when I become your teacher.”
“Wait a minute, what-”
Before Kim Joo-hyuk could even open his mouth, he disappeared on the spot.
“…What does that mean?”
At that moment, Kim Joo-hyuk, who was staring blankly at the place where Parashurama had disappeared, unconsciously made a bewildered expression, but soon shook his head to shake off his thoughts and began to open the thick door.
Wow!
Kim Joo-hyuk soon entered the open door, making a slightly uncomfortable sound.
“…?”
I saw myself.
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After escaping from the Mandala’s outer shell, Damuncheonwang headed to a place where the Sanjeos were sealed, about 3 days away from the Mandala.
Mountain bottom.
Literally, they were wild boars living in the mountains.
However, they are monsters that have a human form and are smarter than wild boars.
And King Damuncheon, who thought of Sanjeo that way, did not like Sanjeo very much, as can be seen from the description.
In the first place, the mountaineers are needlessly greedy and ignorant.
However, the reason why King Damuncheon came to ask for help from the Sanjeos was because the Sanjeos were strong.
okay. Strong man.
Sanjeo was certainly greedy and ignorant, but unlike Mandala, each of them had clear strength.
Of course, if that strength were to come out of the seal, it would definitely be halved as it would not receive the power of the Hwashin, but the number of Sanjeos was very large.
‘If only I could persuade all the Sangers…’
I could take revenge on the guy who completely destroyed the Mandala.
Moreover, King Damuncheon currently had a card that could sufficiently persuade the Sanjeos, so without hesitation, King Damuncheon penetrated the seal toward the mountain where the Sanjeos were sealed.
“….”
As soon as you break through the seal, what you see is a huge mountain.
Without hesitation, King Damun Cheon began flying around the huge mountain, and soon he landed in a huge space near the top of the mountain.
and.
“Why did these arrogant middle-aged people come here?”
King Damuncheon was able to meet the leader of Sanjeo.